No luck installing on my Pixel 2 (walleye)

flohack · 26 Jul 2021, 07:01

Guys,

unfortunately I had to remove Pixel2 (not XL) from the installer as its not clear how to fix it, and I want to prevent bad experience.

I still need someone with a bit of a hacker gene to help me debugging and maybe find out whats wrong.

BR Florian

flohack · 19 Aug 2021, 06:55

I made some progress

The build did not have the kernel config updated for the Pixel 2, I fixed that now and lets see todays build. As it is removed from the installer you would need to flash the kernel manually:

Download https://ci.ubports.com/job/UBportsCommunityPortsJenkinsCI/job/ubports%252Fcommunity-ports%252Fjenkins-ci%252Fwalleye-taimen/job/main/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/halium-boot_walleye.img and flash this with fastboot flash boot halium-boot_walleye.img

Good Luck!

agates · 20 Aug 2021, 00:57

@flohack Unfortunately, I'm getting the same behavior (stuck at white google boot logo).

Will try to get logs again to see if there's something new.

flohack · 20 Aug 2021, 11:24

@agates Can you try to connect with either telnet 192.168.2.15 or ssh phablet@10.15.19.82 when its stuck?

agates · 21 Aug 2021, 19:39

@flohack Both fail with network unreachable

flohack · 21 Aug 2021, 19:51

@agates damnit its getting personal. So lets try this:

Can you flash TWRP recovery to boot
Then, run fastboot boot halium-boot_walleye.img and let it get stuck for lets say 5mins
Then, Long-press power to reboot into recovery
finally, when TWRP has booted can you enter adb shell and then try to see if that file exists: /sys/fs/pstore/console_ramoops ?

Thanks!

agates · 21 Aug 2021, 21:19

@flohack Okay so to be clear, I:

Flashed TWRP to the boot partition:
fastboot flash boot twrp-3.3.0-0-walleye.img
Booted into the halium boot image directly:
fastboot boot halium-boot_walleye.img
Waited 10 minutes
Force-rebooted the device, it booted into TWRP
Opened adb shell checking for /sys/fs/pstore/console_ramoops.

Unfortunately that file isn't there... the pstore directory is empty.

Here are the images used with sha256sum:
twrp-3.3.0-0-walleye.img: e7edcfb553b5c9b7ed717b3439c465075ee17b0eb938bafdce511bbea1cc3cd6
halium-boot_walleye.img: ed82425569e229863e58c17e636a2e341374d796520a478598580cbf9878127c

flohack · 21 Aug 2021, 21:44

@agates Alright can you try the same with wiping data partition first? I have a suspicion... Wipe data, and then try telnet 192.168.2.15 again one time, and if this does not come up, try to boot into that recovery again and see for a pstore...

agates · 22 Aug 2021, 04:53

@flohack OK, I flashed TWRP to the boot partition, booted into TWRP, wiped the data partition, then booted into halium-boot_walleye.img directly from fastboot.

Same result, can't telnet, no console_ramoops file.

Wondering if I should start from android again for a clean slate?

flohack · 22 Aug 2021, 20:02

@agates No I dont think Android is the issue. The symptom seems that the kernel does not boot at all. Thats weird somehow. I will continue digging... ^^

Contonice · 27 Aug 2021, 09:52

I repeated @agates's path and got the same result:
I flashed the latest android 9 using the google site.
Installed ubports installer on ubuntu computer.
Downloaded the config walleye.yml for my google pixel 2 and ran the installer with it. Installation was successful. Then flashed halium-boot_walleye.img via fastboot.
The phone won't boot and hangs on the google logo.
The /sys/fs/pstore folder is empty.

flohack · 29 Aug 2021, 21:41

@contonice oh there is one thing I want to try, please take this boot.img instead of halium-boot: https://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/mzfmYJscqPyM2Bc

agates · 29 Aug 2021, 22:43

@flohack Still no luck here, no console_ramoops found, and same behavior with stuck at google logo.

Here's the last_kmsg if it helps.

EDIT: I attempted with both the TWRP+boot method and the ubports installer (modifying the config with that new url for boot.img).

flohack · 30 Aug 2021, 09:16

@agates Huh the device has last_kmsg but thats from recovery only. Sad, I will try to flash the walleye kernel on taimen lets see ^^

flohack · 8 Nov 2021, 08:33

Guys Pixel 2 is back in the installer, please give it a try

cliffcoggin · 8 Nov 2021, 18:20

@flohack Which version of the installer please?

flohack · 9 Nov 2021, 12:46

@cliffcoggin 0.8.8

BifPowers · 13 Nov 2021, 17:01

@flohack I've successfully installed the OS on the Pixel 2. I'm getting a lot of touchscreen problems though, like double or ghost touches. Shutdown seems to really power off the device though.